[The signs] are placed along Hurricane Road at the last major intersection before arriving at the bridge crossing. Basically, thereâs no way to miss them.
The reporter overestimates most truck drivers' situational awareness.
"I paid the most money to get the best truck and it can do anything. Ain't no fuckin' sign gonna tell me my truck can't do it!"
I'm not seeing any cops around here
That reporter has never heard of http://11foot8.com/
So when is the driver getting charged for vandalism and littering?
The driver suffered minor injuries but was able to exit the vehicle on his own. Luckily, no one else was hurt, considering the area is popular with swimmers and kayakers
https://www.thedrive.com/news/overweight-ford-f-750-plunges-through-historic-wooden-bridge-in-maine
Repair estimates have not been released, but the owner of the truck company has offered to help pay for the rebuild. The incident itself remains under investigation by local authorities.
The trucking company has already offered to help pay for it. It's likely covered under their insurance and the driver is almost certainly been fired.
Need to pay the cost to repair the bridge too
You canât charge a corpse
Thereâs some nifty trick here to avoid parking tickets
The driver suffered minor injuries but was able to exit the vehicle on his own. Luckily, no one else was hurt, considering the area is popular with swimmers and kayakers.
"The driver suffered minor injuries but was able to exit the vehicle on his own"
Was it a niffTea sponsored bridge, though?
Don't know what the mom is complaining about. He didn't know the answer and he did tell him.
Read the actual article. This was a commercial vehicle that was hauling gravel. I think most folks are assuming it was some dumbass in a lifted truck with a few MAGA stickers on the back. Thatâs not the case.
The driver is still at fault for ignoring the posted weight limits, but itâs not like he was driving a personal vehicle, as much as weâd all love to see a some of these massive trucks and SUVs go through a bridge.
Can we just have a bridge that detects MAGA trucks and ditches them then?
To be far, I know a lot of CDL people who are MAGA, so this would track.
Even worse, professional driver should have known better.
To be fair, the stock Ford 750 looks like the douchiest pickup vehicle imaginable. Itâs like if you had asked an AI to design a truck specifically for dudes with fragile masculinity and court-mandated anger management classes. All it needs is twin flagpoles mounted to the back, with the American and confederate flags flying side by side.
Okay, but the truck is more commonly paired with a dump truck-style bed when used for commercial purposes like this: https://www.chicagomotorcars.com/imagetag/8228/3/l/Used-2007-Ford-F750-Super-Duty-Dump-Truck---CAT-DIESEL---Automatic---SUPER-CLEAN.jpg
Does a photo exist of the specific model this driver was using? If he was hauling gravel, I would guess he was using a dump truck model.
So some facts here:
- Commercial truck carrying gravel
- This was a rebuilt bridge, not a historic one
- The owner of the construction company has proactively offered to pay for repairs
- Yes, the driver is am idiot and made a mistake, and is probably going to hear about it for the rest of their lives.
The couple that were driving the truck died, and thier house was sold to a new family, who they haunted.
Gravel? Holy shit, thatâs poor judgement. How can you be comfortable driving such a big truck over a wooden bridge, then add potentially tons of gravel?
and is probably going to hear about it for the rest of their lives.
As they should. They either ignored the signage and/or were oblivious to the weight they were driving around. Both major safety issues. They should have their license suspended for a bit and potentially banned from a cdl.
This isn't an "oopsie," this is negligence.
I just googled "Ford 750". No way this shit exists for real, seems like a Hot Wheels
The idea is that it's the base for things like a dump truck, a gravel hauler, small firetruck, or other large commercial vehicle.
If anyone is driving one around as a form of transportation, they are probably avoiding therapy.
I've used them for work. Some models can pull more than small tractor trailer rigs. Using them as a pickup truck is insane.
Yep: 650 dump trucks, 750 utility bed cranes.
It's a commercial vehicle. Very few, if any, people drive them as normal commuter vehicles.
Jesus yeah did the same, hahhahah that is the most ridiculous emotional support vehicle I have ever seen!!!!
It was a work truck from a commercial trucking company. Likely a dump truck or flatbed. Insurance will pay for the damages and the driver shit canned.
Emotional support vehicle
That's a good one lol
Gender affirming vehicle?
Gotta need the big cabin to hold in the driver's lonely emotions
This was work truck hauling crushed gravel. So it was basically acting like a small dump truck.
one less wankpanzer on the road, just a shame a bridge had to be put in harms way to do so.
It was a work vehicle filled with gravel though, not a personal vehicle.
yeah this likely means that the historical bridge will be replaced by a more sturdy and ugly one
Damn. The posted limit on the bridge is 3 tons. The truck empty weighs 4.5 tons and they were hauling a full load of gravel. What an idiot. They better yank the driver's commercial license because he obviously wasn't reading any signs.
The term Historic is being used to grab attention, but this is fixable, even it will take until Spring. The article states that it was rebuilt in the 70's, but the wooden deck has almost certainly been replaced a few times since then.
Historic is also there to point to why the bridge isnât at fault. Modern bridges can often handle such weights, but historic bridges canât. Certain parts of the country have reason (aesthetics, historical value, and tourism) to rebuild and restore their historic bridges rather than replace them with modern bridges.
No one managed to get a shot of the truck in the water apparently
Fun fact: school buses in the US are legally allowed to ignore posted weight limits on bridges. While this may seem particularly insane, usually on bridges the posted weight limit is not the weight that will make the bridge instantly collapse, it's the weight that if regularly exceeded by crossing vehicles will cause undue wear and require the bridge to be repaired or replaced sooner than it otherwise would have been. School buses are infrequent enough (and relatively light enough, even despite the child obesity epidemic) that they don't create a significant problem.
On a wooden bridge like this, though, the same logic does not apply. I sure wouldn't cross it in my school bus, but the height limit would preclude that anyway.
I swear to god, the Ford F-750 looks like if you had asked AI to design the biggest lifted pickup specifically for the dudes with fragile masculinities and court-mandated anger management classes.
F-750 is sold for specialized uses, as ambulance, crane vehicle, etc. It is a commercial vehicle, not a normal truck for private individuals. In fact, this picture is a modified F-750(well technically all F-750 are modified). Normally the truck comes just as a base platform and then you build stuff on it.
yeah, my dad had one back in the day. No extended cab, no bed, no fancy chrome trimmings, was the very front and a rear frame platform. He had a box truck style trailer on his when he was doing contract work.
But in the style of night rider with 57% Tonka truck.
At that point, you may as well just buy a school bus.
Cue car brains complaining about how their mini tanks must be supported by all infrastructure
But they also don't want to pay taxes or see any slowdowns due to repairs or upgrades. The same energy as a child wishing every day were Christmas.
And no trains ever
Zingedâem!
Is this the plot to beetlejuice 2?
I thought the same, this looks a lot like the place they had the accident in the first movie
What an asshole. There's no way they didn't know they were overweight either. Maybe they couldn't see the sign through all their 'rolling coal'.
Probably thought the weight limit was a suggestion and not a hard constraint. Yikes
To be "fair", with how material exhaustion works, it could have totally been fine, as the bridge only would have bent and creaked beneath the guy, and then the next, under-weight-limit car would have fallen in.
Yeah you can destructively overload a structure a number of times before catastrophic failure unless you go way over. It may be internal stress but it can be as far as shearing a bolt or two. But each time you lower the load bearing capacity of the structure, and once thatâs begun the structure is on borrowed time and you wonât notice until itâs too late unless you have regular inspections
The careful text-books measure
(Let all who build beware!)
The load, the shock, the pressure
Material can bear.
So, when the buckled girder
Lets down the grinding span,
The blame of loss, or murder,
Is laid upon the man.
Not on the Stuff â the Man!- Rudyard Kipling
Thank you.
The average truck driver doesn't think rules apply to him.
For once, an article reporting an "overweight Ford" causing a mess isn't referring to a politician in Ontario.
Posted weight limits were possibly ignored
(Emphasis added)
I think we can rule out any other possibility. Either they didnât know the weight of their truck and ignored the weight limit, or they did know the weight of their truck and ignored the weight limit. Either way, they ignored the weight limit.
I think they're arguing semantics. If the driver didn't know the limits, they wouldn't have ignored them, they'd have been ignorant to them
It's more likely that the driver just didn't care.
I lived by a historic covered bridge as a kid. The people in the area would have been PISSED if something like this happened. The bridge was originally designed for horses and buggies, so if your vehicle weighed too much, you couldn't go on it.
Check for a nearby gothic revival farmhouse perched on a hill. There might be a pair of new ghosts in the attic (along with a cool miniature model of the town). Beware of the weirdo family that just moved in. The daughter is cool though.
Looks like the marketing for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice has gotten extremely meta.
Are we fat-shaming cars now?
Aren't we always?
This is the opening plot to Beetlejuice
The F-650 and F-750's are designed as small commercial trucks that should have small dump truck bodies or maybe flat bed for hauling other materials. They are not meant to just have a standard pickup bed on the back. They are ideal for small contractors who do not need as large a quantity of material that a large triaxle truck can carry. But of course, some people want the biggest personal truck to drive around so things like your picture are born.
I watched the Fall Guy movie recently.
What I remember from the TV series was the guy drove an absolutely enormous truck for no real reason at all.
In the remake he drives a similar sized truck, but now it doesn't stand out from anybody else's at all. He drives. That's it.
It's like seeing Chunk from The Goonies. Now he's just a kid, rather than the fat kid.
no way beans driving pick-up truck's.
Holy crap its real
I think the front end is commonly used for heavy duty commercial purposes like dump trucks, but selling it for consumer purposes should be illegal.
The view through that hole in the bridge looks like something out of Soul Reaver.
At least it ended funny
Tim Burtony soundtrack intensifies.
lol sounds about right
Keep an eye on that truck driver for winning a Darwin Award sooner or laterâŚ
L+ratio bozo stupid.
These cars aren't resembling tanks, but are literally tanks! Their size measures up to being one of a tank, their weight one of a tank, and the damage it fucking causes when it rams into a family of four in a small sedan one of a tank.
Imagine the amount they cost tax payers from road repairs alone, enough to build a functioning fast rail network in California
Man, drivers really fell off
School is hard sometimes
And the goblin who'd covered up the weight limit sign as the car was on approach said as he was uncovering it: ha! Gorham!
I was confused about the title because the first page of search said it meant being a crypto bro.
Only Wiktionary had the appropriate meaning derived from the not just bikes channel
My brain mentally filters out "-pilled" as meaningless gen z slang.
makes me genuinely laugh
I'm pretty sure that bridge is a portal to another world.
Source: the documentary Nos4atu
Haha I know that one. NOS4A2. I quite liked it, much in the vein of stranger things. Also contains a car that should get properly fucked.
Oh nooo, they desperately needed an emergency 10cc of ego transplant but the fell though a bridge on the way to the boostegoification facility.
Rip.
I hope they build a new wider 4 lane bridge to accommodate the most basic traffic needs.
Natural selection
Lololol no it's not. These things have definitions and it ain't Wikipedia nor is it dida dumb thing.
Itâs beetle juice all over again
This thread is wild. People wanting to charge this guy and happy that this guy died (clearly non readers). Weird.
Yeah, I want the guy to be ok (apparently he was) and hopefully some learning will happen.
My second reaction is... from the photo it looks like he opened a portal into another dimension.
Fuckcars is a very toxic community. Not just this one on lemmy. Online bicycle activists are like vegans, actively turning people away from an objectively good lifestyle because they're just such giant sanctimonious dicks about it.
Many communities have some number of jerks. I actually find that people constantly stereotype based on outliers they hear about online. I've met very few vegans who were normal, reasonable prople, yet I've met very many people who steteotype and hate on vegans despite knowing none.
Edit 3: I know nobody here is going to miss me, but I'm going to block this community and I feel it's fair for me to get to explain why. I've frequented this community since I came from reddit and the comments always come across as "us vs them" to the point of hostility toward each other. It's really not kind or welcoming. I hope you all have a nice day and find that feeling of welcomeness that I was looking for
Edit 2: Are people just angry? I ask a genuine question and get two snide remarks as answers. Lemmy is proving to be NO better than reddit
Is it just me or does the bridge on the left look like it has concrete flooring? If so, why didn't they just get two pictures of the actual affected bridge?
Edit: please don't just downvote me. I'm asking a question because I don't know the answer
Not sure if you already saw this answer, but if you zoom into the pictures, they both are the same bridge. The picture on the left at first looks like it has a concrete floor, but it's just a trick of the lighting.
The wooden planks are in the shade and it creates the illusion that they are the same color as the asphalt road that runs up to the actual bridge surface.
Once you zoom in, you can see all the individual wooden planks in the left photo.
I was confused too the first time I saw the picture.
The quality of online discourse suffers severely on weekends, particularly holiday weekends. I support and respect that you expect more. But, everything at scale is ,at best, moderate. Find your tiny home. Then, venture out only when you want. Consider using a couple of accounts to segregate conversations at home from conversations outside.
You're giving them too much credit. Yeah it would be nice if online discussions could be more civil but the "snide" comments mentioned were not worth getting upset about and one of them wasn't even snide at all but actually helpful and genuinely answering the question to which they responded defensively and playing the victim. That kind of victim mentality to actually helpful comments that maybe the original commenter didn't want to hear and editing to whine about downvotes is just as annoying as moderately uncivil comments.
